1 Schilling - Wolter von Plettenberg Riga, smooth bottom with curved top

Wolter von Plettenberg served as Landmaster of the Livonian Order for an extraordinary 51 years, from 1494 until his death in 1535. His 1527 victory at the Battle of Smolina against Muscovite forces bought the Order decades of additional autonomy — and it was partly on the strength of that political capital that he was elevated to Imperial Prince by Charles V in 1526, the only Livonian Landmaster ever to hold that title. These schillings, struck in the final years of his rule, represent one of the last confident assertions of the Order's independent minting authority before the Livonian Confederation collapsed under Reformation pressures and Russian military threat in the following generation.

The smooth-bottom, curved-top shield variant is catalogued distinctly across Haljak, Neumann, and Fehse, reflecting genuine die differentiation rather than collector convention.